![]() For Caren, who is raising a tween daughter alone, the job provides security and a refuge from the high-powered Washington life that broke up her marriage. Now add Locke’s exemplary sophomore novel The Cutting Season to that list, though she takes a different tack, mixing a terrific mystery and strong-willed woman’s life and work struggles with the lingering effects of 19th-century slavery.Ĭaren Gray works as the manager for the Belle Vie estate, a sumptuous former Louisiana plantation turned into a tourist destination, where actors recreate the past on a nightly basis. ![]() From Gillian Flynn’s mega-hit Gone Girl and Megan Abbott’s cheerleader noir Dare Me to Laura Lippman’s suburban madam suspense tale And When She Was Good, women have been leading the way with complex, character-rich stories very much rooted in the now, plumbing fears and anxieties that strike deeply in our hearts. This has been a veritable banner year for crime fiction by women. ![]()
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